Why Has the U

Why has the U.S. prison system been compared to slavery?

A) Black men are jailed disproportionately to their rate of criminality, and they are used as laborers in prison.
B) The rate of prison escapes is similar to the number of escapes from slavery.
C) In prison, labor is seen as a way to reform criminals before releasing them, just as slavery was seen as a way to reform enslaved people before freeing them.
D) Slavery was ignored by most white people, just as most free people today ignore those in prisons.